50 Cent

June 26, 2012  50 Cent may be getting richer and richer, but he isn't investing much cash in his latest video, the ironically simple clip for The Lost Tape's "Complicated." He's pretty content chilling on the couch, trying on a few of his many fitted hats and getting ready to go out the way only Fiddy could — by downing one of his own branded energy shots, considering his baseball bat, and busting his bulletproof vest out of the wall (via Rap Ra …Read on

May 30, 2012  For those keeping score at home, the list of rappers who are ostensibly in favor of same-sex marriage now includes Ice Cube, T.I., 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar. I don't know this because they made bold, formal statements like Jay-Z. I know this because they were asked by Ad Age, MTV, Vibe, and DJ Drama's Streetz Is Watchin' Sirius/XM radio show, and then their answers were turned into blog fodder and disseminated across the Internet. …Read on

May 25, 2012  I've been meaning to talk about RJ Smith's The One: The Life and Music Of James Brown for a few months now. I guess it's a biography of James Brown, though it's more like a very long essay about J.B. …Read on

May 23, 2012  Like Diddy and Jay-Z, 50 Cent recently placed among the top five in a ranking of the richest hip-hop artists . Unlike Sean Combs and Shawn Carter, Curtis Jackson is still putting out rap mixtapes at a young hustler's pace. Yesterday, Fiddy unveiled his second mixtape in about six months, The Lost Tape. …Read on

April 18, 2012  According to Forbes, the two richest hip-hop artists at the moment are the two Seans you probably suspected are rolling in cash. Sean "Puff Daddy" "Puffy" "P. Diddy" "Diddy" Combs is worth $550 million, according to Forbes' calculations, which is nearly $100 million richer than the artist with the silver medal, Jay-Z (née Shawn Carter) at $460 million. Dr. …Read on

March 17, 2012  Read about SXSW's best acts, then see them in action in our live gallery!
Jack White: At times Jack White can seem like he's defined more by the things he rejects — digital recording, non-primary colors, music post-1975 — than those he embraces. But last night at the Third Man Records/From the Basement party at Stages, playing in front of a packed crowd that included Bill Murray and Third Man label signee John C. …Read on

March 9, 2012  And the rappers keep rolling out: Following similar announcements from Jay-Z and 50 Cent, Lil Wayne has announced that he, too, will be gracing the fine folk in Austin, Texas, next week via Mountain Dew, with whom he just signed a massive branding deal.
Weezy will be going south to make myriad announcements about the campaign, DEWeezy, which includes the forthcoming construction of a skate park in New Orleans. …Read on